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English Dictionary: pained by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pained
adj
  1. hurt or upset; "she looked offended"; "face had a pained and puzzled expression"
    Synonym(s): offended, pained
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pain \Pain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pained}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Paining}.] [OE. peinen, OF. pener, F. peiner to fatigue. See
      {Pain}, n.]
      1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.]
            --Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).
  
      2. To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with
            uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment;
            to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his
            stomach pained him.
  
                     Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. --Locke
            .
  
      3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to
            grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
  
                     I am pained at my very heart.            --Jer. iv. 19.
  
      {To pain one's self}, to exert or trouble one's self; to take
            pains; to be solicitous. [Obs.] [bd]She pained her to do
            all that she might.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      Syn: To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve;
               distress; agonize; torment; torture.
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